Tony Stewart was running lap times about a second faster than expected at Indianapolis Motor Speedway when a blown tire caused him to wreck this week in a Goodyear test. Goodyear officials said Stewart's accident 17 laps into Tuesday's 20-lap run was the only incident of the two-day test. ''Our test speeds were extremely fast at Indianapolis,'' Greg Stucker, Goodyear's director of racing, said in a statement Friday. ''Tony was approaching the end of a very strong 20-lap run, with his lap times as much as a second faster than what has become the norm at Indianapolis at that point of a run.
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